u/British_Historian

For my job, we quite often host people and provide small drinks for chats with random members of the public. In this heat we've experiences a shortage of disposable paper cups due to the heat, not many people want a mug of tea in the middle of these hot summer days.

I've been doing my best to keep up with demand, even as our pipes have the taps run slightly warm just stockpiling water jugs in the fridges every morning, I'm now waiting a week for our delivery of paper cups.

In this time I have had several people say "Yes" to wanting a drink, to "No thank you" when offered water in a mug. 2 people who did this specifically went on to complain to my director about not being provided refreshment in the heat, and in truth this is what has pushed me to this post.

Grow up. Use a mug. Drink your water. Stay hydrated.

Equally it doesn't effect me, so eh. It's easy to let go and move on with my life. But still it's one of those things that just irks me. A pet peeve if you will.
If anyone is wondering why we don't have Glasses or Plastic cups, I do too. We only have a limited amount of storage space and mugs are used 10 out of the 12 months of the year in large quantities, but plastic was ruled out for Hygiene concerns and Glass was considered too potentially dangerous.

"There's chemicals in the water" is a conspiracy as old as plumbing, however when you think about the logistics to taint an entire ever-used and refreshed water supply it kind of just rings as impractical.

However, say you wanted to control a population of people with disposable income, and get them hooked on your product, you tell them that chemicals are in the tap water, so they drink your own flavourless yet addictive chemicals and you suddenly have a booming bottled water industry!

It would be easier to produce, distribute, quantify and control. The ultimate point? Get people spending as much on water (one of the cheapest products to produce) as they would on petrol.

Basically. If there truly are 'chemicals in the water', they're in the bottles. Not the mains.

Howdy Skyfarers, I used to play AOS but dropped off around Melign Portants during 2nd edition, back then I used my Oldhammer Empire for Cities of Sigmar, they have since found themselves back on square bases BUT! I kept a contingency plan in the event the AOS itch returned... Kharadron Overlords.

Loved the vibe of these guys honestly know nothing about them. I've been picking up hot deals as and when over the years as a just encase I wanted to play them and I'm now sat with my pile of grey plastic sets deciding how to build them!

Here's what I have...

1x Admiral

1x Frigate

2x Gunhaulers

6x Endrinriggers/skywardens

1x Arkanaut Company

1x Grundstok Thunderers

1x Endrinmaster with flying suit

1x Jakkob Bugmansson XI

How's that for a start? It feels good. A silly number of the Balloon boys but I'm a fan.

What should I be looking at getting next? Is there anything fairly core I'm missing?

Thankyou!

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I mean anything for the marketing I guess but it gives some hope that if we can all poke fun and laugh at this business decision towards digital only games other companies won't be so quick to follow suit.

Edit: I have now been made aware of Sony. Damn.

I don't mean a movie about school, more a movie you were shown in school because of 'educational purposes' rather then an end of year treat.

Goodnight Mr. Tom is the one that comes to mind immediately for me.

I'm also curious to see what other school districts show and if any more modern productions are shown to kids these days in place of what we were shown.

I think we'll see a release in the next couple of decades of a digital afterlife, claiming to be a way of keeping your loved ones alive in cyberspace but rather then the sci-fi horror of a digital conscious eventually left to rot for all eternity in cyberspace I actually just think it won't be real. It will all be a con.

Your digital footprint will be read in detail once your family sends whatever the company asks for and a ai chatbot will be created to resemble you based on what mark you left on the world. Your grandchildren can talk to chat bot you, people will call it out as bullshit but people will argue 'What's the difference really?' and enjoy this ghost of you they put in the computer while feeding some corporate ceo.

Edit: I feel a lot of people are missing the point a bit, and while I appreciate that it's a well trodden scifi trope to preserve a 'digital consciousness', that's not what I'm saying at all.
I saying that's the lie. That's what we're going to be sold but not get. We're going to get just a fake, soulless chat bot copy of you, that won't be you in any meaningful way but will sell the illusion of you to your loved ones after your death.
You don't get to live forever in cyberspace for better or for worse, but a marketable copy of you will.

I may just be blind but I've been playing this rule for a long time now, both friendly and competitive but have always had it ruled that when you charge you can make a shooting attack with a throwing weapon without any penalties to the To Hit rule.

However if you move, don't engage, and then use a throwing weapon you do then have -1 To Hit.

I've mulled over the rules and unless I'm missing something I can't see the part which makes the charge hit unmodified? In my head you've moved so you should have -1.
Unless this is some sort of loop hole by it happening in the move phase? or that a Charge is technically not a 'Move'. I will also argue that it makes sense that it would work this way to me as logically it's easier to hit something you've got right in your face rather then from a distance?

I just want to know where it's written down!

I, as an avid PC gamer, bought my friends PS4 when Spyro Reignited came out. Played it to 337% and never touched the console again. Was absolutely worth it for the price I paid.